Is It Possible to Have Too Much Emotional Intelligence?

Written by Susan Dunn, M.A., The EQ Coach


Someone emailed me recently, "Do you think it's possible to have too much emotional intelligence going on? Torepparttar point that perhaps logic takes a backseat?"

Good question. The fact is, we need both IQ and EQ. You can't have "too much" emotional intelligence, but that doesn't mean atrepparttar 101805 expense of logic.

It's time to use logic, for instance, when figuring out a budget, or making a timeline for a project. Then there's a time to use emotional intelligence - using leadership skills, for instance, to get those people to make that timeline and project happen.

Emotional intelligence means using all your faculties, including logic and reason, to bring about results that are favorable. It means havingrepparttar 101806 flexibility and creativity to see alternatives.

Say you're presented with a highly-charged emotional situation, for instance. You're furious with your partner and would like to hit him. Your EQ would tell you to manage that emotion, to stop and think. Your "thinking brain" would then considerrepparttar 101807 possible consequences of your act -- seriously hurting him, going to jail, harmingrepparttar 101808 relationship irreparably, feeling shame and guilt afterwards, and other things that are not in your best interest. Atrepparttar 101809 same time, you could use your empathy to try and see things from their point of view.

The Mind of A Successful Thinker

Written by Maida Martillano


I was'nt born with a clear thought in my head. It's always a jungle and a puzzle in there. Sometimes I make sense of it. Often times not. But this I know, those thoughts would make me a "successful" thinker.

When I was still that puny little kid of 8 years old, I would often explain to myself, and often times in my head, why we have "this" and why we have "that". I would often believe that I am right and when an "explanation" struck me like whyrepparttar sky is blue and not pink, I would go right torepparttar 101804 encyclopedia and then found out that I was, indeed, closer torepparttar 101805 truth. I thought of myself as strange and lucky atrepparttar 101806 same time, never thinking that at some point, these "bursts" of thoughts would make me a more bolder type of person. Never afraid of quantified but calculable risks.

Last night, I devouredrepparttar 101807 words and thoughts of some of our "successful thinkers" in their prime. Corey Rudl, Marlon Sanders, Terry Dean and a lot more. I was in that deep self-less thought wondering what "really" made them click and hot and why their words and thoughts alone sell inrepparttar 101808 millions. These are what I found out.

Never afraid to be what you have to be

There would always be a point in your life when you would burstrepparttar 101809 bubble and tell yourself that you would never be successful. Wrong. Everyone of us has a reason to be here. Never be afraid to do what you want to do or to be what you have to be. There will be a time when you have to let go of your creativity, of your inner self and berepparttar 101810 super person that you are.

I had dreams of becoming a successful songwriter and singer even when I was 5 years old. I would often see myself onrepparttar 101811 stage with bright lights and people showering me with compliments. I can never let go of that inspiration until I came to a point that I was doing it. I now have national multiple song writing awards and I am proud that some ofrepparttar 101812 most successful singers have been singingrepparttar 101813 songs of my childhood..of what I've been through.

Let your pain make you strong

We all have our pains. Pains from our experiences past and present. Perhaps you'rerepparttar 101814 most unloved child. You did not finish high school. You seperated from your wife or husband. Neverrepparttar 101815 less, you should not let your pain make you weak. Get your strength from it. I can't tell you how but you'rerepparttar 101816 only one who can control your emotions. You can change yourself and only fromrepparttar 101817 "inside-out".

Most successful people had traumatic experiences when they were young. Perhaps a close love one died. They were very poor and had practically nothing to eat.

One story my dad always loved to tell was of his relative who was so poor that he had to borrow my dad's clothes to go to school.

His cousin loves to read. What he could afford from shining shoes while on his way home he would pay for comic books. He devoured everything readable, especially comic magazines.

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